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Nearest Communities to Riverside,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Riverside, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Riverside:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Riverside.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Riverside is located in Ness County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ness County: Ellis, Gove, Hodgeman, Lane, Pawnee, Rush & Trego.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Riverside. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Ness County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Riverside (which is Ness County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Riverside

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Ness County   (where Riverside resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.nesscountyks.gov/
    • County Seat for Ness:   Ness City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverside.
      • Harold
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Harold is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harold
      • Bazine
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Bazine is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazine
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
      • Ness City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Laird
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Laird is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
      • Brownell
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Beeler
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Beeler is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
      • Osgood
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Osgood is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osgood
      • Ransom
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Arnold
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Arnold is located in Ness County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
  • Edwards County
  • Ford County
  • Hodgeman County
    • County Website:   https://hodgemancountyks.com/
    • County Seat for Hodgeman:   Jetmore
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverside.
      • Dungans Crossing
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Dungans Crossing is located in Hodgeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dungans Crossing
      • Hanston
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Hanston is located in Hodgeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanston
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
      • Gray
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Gray is located in Hodgeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
      • Bosse
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Bosse is located in Hodgeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosse
      • Jetmore
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Orwell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Orwell is located in Hodgeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orwell
  • Lane County
  • Pawnee County
    • County Website:   https://www.pawneecountykansas.com/
    • County Seat for Pawnee:   Larned
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverside.
      • Burdett
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Burdett is located in Pawnee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdett
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 219 people
      • Rozel
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Rozel is located in Pawnee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozel
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 137 people
      • Bert Wettar
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Bert Wettar is located in Pawnee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bert Wettar
      • Sanford ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Sanford is located in Pawnee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanford
      • Vaughn
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Vaughn is located in Pawnee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaughn
      • Ash Valley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Ash Valley is located in Pawnee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Valley
  • Rush County
    • County Website:   https://rushcountykansas.org/
    • County Seat for Rush:   La Crosse
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riverside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riverside.
      • Alexander
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Alexander is located in Rush County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
      • Nekoma
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Nekoma is located in Rush County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nekoma
      • McCracken
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Hargrave
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Hargrave is located in Rush County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargrave
      • Rush Center
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • La Crosse
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Riverside) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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